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LV - Delaware River Bridge

Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey

Photos 

Photo taken by Owl's Flight Photography

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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BH Photo #240303

Map 

Description 

This structure occupies the piers of the first railroad bridge to cross the Delaware River at Easton. It is also notable for its fish-belly deck trusses, an unusual variant of the Pratt design.

-- Historic American Engineering Record

Facts 

Overview
Abandoned pratt deck truss bridge over Delaware River on Railroad
Location
Phillipsburg, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey
Status
Abandoned
History
Built 1901
Builders
- American Bridge Co. of New York (Edgemoore Plant)
- Central Iron & Steel of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Lukens Iron & Steel of Coatesville, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Pencoyd Iron Works of Pencoyd, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Slatington Rolling Mill Co. of Slatington, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
Railroads
- Conrail (CR)
- Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV)
Design
Pratt deck truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.68778, -75.20248   (decimal degrees)
40°41'16" N, 75°12'09" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/482890/4504118 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Easton
Inventory number
BH 53675 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (3,780)
American Bridge Co. (1,564)
Built 1901 (556)
Built during 1900s (7,437)
Central Iron & Steel (2)
Conrail (1,666)
Curved (476)
Deck truss (1,826)
Delaware River (63)
Easton, Pennsylvania (25)
Lehigh Valley Railroad (136)
Lukens Iron & Steel (2)
New Jersey (1,645)
Northampton County, Pennsylvania (128)
 Pencoyd Iron Works (33)
Pennsylvania (5,502)
Phillipsburg, New Jersey (25)
Pin-connected (4,061)
Pratt deck truss (373)
Pratt truss (9,679)
Railroad (16,101)
Riveted (2,248)
Slatington Rolling Mill Co. (2)
State line crossing (877)
Stone Abutments (105)
Stone piers (46)
Truss (33,908)
Warren County, New Jersey (153)

Update Log 

  • June 7, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • April 29, 2021: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: Added category "Curved"
  • December 28, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
  • May 2, 2020: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
  • December 30, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • December 8, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • November 6, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added info from the HAER
  • August 2, 2013: Photo imported by Dave King
  • September 27, 2012: Added by Luke Harden

Related Bridges 

Sources 

  • Luke
  • HAER PA-543 - Lehigh Valley Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning Delaware River, south of Lehigh River, Easton, Northampton County, PA
  • Geoff Hubbs
  • Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comments 

LV - Delaware River Bridge
Posted October 29, 2019, by Geoff Hubbs (geoffrey [dot] hubbs [at] att [dot] net)

I've read it was 1988 or 1989 when Conrail abandoned the ex-LVRR bridge in favor of the parallel ex-CNJ bridge which was in better condition. Track swings were made at either end of the bridge to connect the Lehigh Line to the CNJ bridge.

LV - Delaware River Bridge
Posted October 28, 2019, by Ryan Blanche (rybird95 [at] gmail [dot] com)

I heard this bridge (and line) has been abandoned since 1976. Is that true?

LV - Delaware River Bridge
Posted October 9, 2019, by Geoff Hubbs (geoffrey [dot] hubbs [at] att [dot] net)

BH Photo #240304 is of the parallel former CNJ RR bridge still in use by Norfolk Southern

LV Delaware River Bridge
Posted February 11, 2014, by george oakley (georgeoakley49 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

does anyone know the current status of this abandoned r.r. bridge?please let me know.thanks.